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Greta Thunberg condemns world leaders in emotional speech at UN September 23, 2019 •
Thunberg, 16, says governments have betrayed young people
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‘You are not mature enough to tell it like it is. You are failing us’ VIDEO - Greta Thunberg message to the United Nations Climate Summary 2019 on fossil fuels and man-made global warming. Greta Thunberg has excoriated world leaders for their “betrayal” of young people through their inertia over the climate crisis at a United Nations summit that failed to deliver ambitious new commitments to address dangerous global heating. If world leaders choose to fail us, my generation will never forgive them Greta Thunberg
Read more In a stinging speech on Monday, the teenage Swedish climate activist told governments that “you are still not mature enough to tell it like it is. You are failing us. But the young people are starting to understand your betrayal.” Days after millions of young people joined protests worldwide to demand emergency action on climate change, leaders gathered for the annual United Nations general assembly aiming to inject fresh momentum into efforts to curb carbon emissions. 1